Web services deployment

Abstract

A system and method for Web service archive deployment is describe. An exemplary method includes searching the Web services archive for a metadata descriptor, processing descriptors from the metadata descriptor, and generating a set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters.

1. A computer-implemented method for deploying contents of a Web services archive comprising:
 searching the Web services archive for a metadata descriptor file that describes a mapping between a Web service described in the Web services archive and a Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) file that includes mapping information that is stored in the Web services archive; 
 reading the metadata descriptor to determine which Web service is described in the Web services archive; 
 storing the metadata descriptor and the mapping information in a Web services registry; 
 generating a set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters using a types descriptor that specifies a mapping between XML complex types and Java class files and the WSDL file of the Web services archive; 
 retrieving the mapping information from the Web services registry; and 
 storing the mapping information as web service data in a cache that is accessible within a message processing runtime framework by the Web service to process messages, the mapping information including a plurality of mapping descriptors that include a first mapping descriptor, the first mapping descriptor including a first value that corresponds to a first message and a first method descriptor that corresponds to a first method. 
 
     
     
       2. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 saving information from the Web services archive into a file system. 
 
     
     
       3. The method of  claim 2 , further comprising:
 saving the set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters into the file system. 
 
     
     
       4. The method of  claim 3 , further comprising:
 persisting the set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters, the Web services archive, and the metadata descriptor to a data base. 
 
     
     
       5. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 notifying a protocol in a protocol stack that the Web services archive has been deployed. 
 
     
     
       6. The method of  claim 5 , further comprising:
 providing configuration data to the protocol. 
 
     
     
       7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including program code which, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to:
 search the Web services archive for a metadata descriptor file that describes a mapping between a Web service described in the Web services archive and a Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) file that includes mapping information that is stored in the Web services archive; 
 read the metadata descriptor to determine which Web service is described in the Web services archive; 
 store the metadata descriptor and the mapping information in a Web services registry; and 
 generate a set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters using a types descriptor that specifies a mapping between XML complex types and Java class files and the WSDL file of the Web services archive; 
 retrieve the mapping information from the Web services registry; and 
 store the mapping information as web service data in a cache that is accessible within a message processing runtime framework by the Web service to process messages, the mapping information including a plurality of mapping descriptors that include a first mapping descriptor, the first mapping descriptor including a first value that corresponds to a first message and a first method descriptor that corresponds to a first method. 
 
     
     
       8. The computer-readable medium of  claim 7 , the computer-readable medium further to:
 save information from the Web services archive into a file system. 
 
     
     
       9. The computer-readable medium of  claim 8 , computer-readable medium further to:
 save the set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters into the file system. 
 
     
     
       10. The computer-readable medium of  claim 9 , the computer-readable medium further to:
 persist the set of objects to serialize and deserialize input parameters, the archive, and the metadata descriptors to a database. 
 
     
     
       11. The computer-readable medium of  claim 7 , the computer-readable medium further to:
 notify a protocol in a protocol stack that the Web services archive has been deployed. 
 
     
     
       12. The computer-readable medium of  claim 11 , the computer-readable medium further to:
 provide configuration data to the protocol. 
 
     
     
       13. A system comprising:
 a processor; and 
 a memory coupled to the processor, the memory to provide functionality including, 
 a deployment service to receive a deployable Web services archive file, wherein the Web services archive file includes:
 a WSDL file describing a Web service to be deployed, 
 a Web service class implementation file, 
 a Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) mapping file that includes mapping information, 
 a types file specifying a mapping between XML complex types and Java class files, 
 a configuration file, and 
 a metadata descriptor file describing locations of the files in the Web services archive; 
 
 a deployment manager to deploy the Web services archive file received by the deployment service, the deployment manager to store the mapping information in a web services registry; 
 a runtime data registry to store at least a portion of the Web services archive's contents; and 
 a runtime object to retrieve the mapping information from the Web services registry to cause the mapping information to store as web service data in a cache that is accessible within a message processing runtime framework by the Web service to process messages, the mapping information includes a plurality of mapping descriptors that includes a first mapping descriptor, the first mapping descriptor includes a first value that corresponds to a first message and a first method descriptor that corresponds to a first method. 
 
     
     
       14. The system of  claim 13 , wherein the Web services deployable archive file is a WAR file. 
     
     
       15. The system of  claim 13 , wherein the deployable Web services archive file is a JAR file. 
     
     
       16. The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , further including receiving the first message. 
     
     
       17. The computer-implemented method of  claim 16 , wherein the first message is selected from a group of messages including a simple object access protocol (SOAP) message a hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) message and a multipurpose Internet mail extension (MIME) message. 
     
     
       18. The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein the first method descriptor includes:
 a name of the first method; 
 an order of objects that the first method accepts as input parameters; 
 a specification of the types of objects that the first method accepts as input parameters; 
 a type of object that the first method returns; and 
 a plurality of exceptions that the first method may throw in response to a fault condition. 
 
     
     
       19. The computer-implemented method of  claim 16 , wherein the first method is utilized to generate a response to the first message.